Plastic is the most prevalent marine pollutant, and plastic surfaces are the fastest growing habitat in the ocean.

Researchers at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa recently discovered that many species of fungi isolated from Hawai‘i’s ...

Fungi have been recognized as potential allies in the fight against plastic pollution for a while now. These microorganisms ...

Palaeoceanography is the study of past changes in ocean conditions including temperature, salinity, redox state, productivity, circulation, and ecology. These variables are typically reconstructed ...

SHI SHI BEACH, Olympic National Park — Celebrated beachcomber John Anderson slowly tilts forward while gulping mouthfuls of ...

His Forks museum off U.S. 101 houses buckets of debris lost at sea, like the scores of Saki and Suntory whiskey bottles he ...

NATZ, North Atlantic Transition Zone; NASG, Northern Atlantic Subtropical Gyre; EZ, Equatorial Zone ... Although there were Tintinnina assemblage studies in the tropical zones of the Pacific and ...

Things in the Arctic have never been hotter. In the past year, Russian nuclear submarines have practiced firing cruise ...

Introduction: Sea ice extent increased in the Pacific Arctic Ocean during 2021 owing to the reversal of the Beaufort Gyre, unlike in previous years ... were randomly selected from a sample collected ...

Like other floating debris, the aquamarine spheres reach the West Coast on the Kuroshio Current and, more significantly, the North Pacific subtropical gyre, a vast circular system of ocean currents.